HOPKINTON, Mass., Aug. 25, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
News Highlights:
- EMC announces new EMC XtremIO application integration and
management features for virtual machines via SMI-S and VMware
vRealize Orchestrator
- Updates extend full power of XtremIO iCDM functionality to
virtual environments
- Simplifies storage management in virtual environments with
XtremIO Management Server leveraging EMC Virtual Storage Integrator
(VSI) and EMC AppSync
- EMC plans further application integrations and workflow
automation support within the XtremIO user interface
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- At VMworld: Visit EMC at VMworld booth #1223 to learn
more about all EMC products and services that support VMware
- Demos: View demos for iCDM Capabilities, Microsoft
System Center Virtual Machine Manager and iCDM Scripting and
Automation using PowerShell
- Video: Chad Sakac talks
about the benefits of XtremIO's VMware integration updates:
https://youtu.be/1Sea9u3nqoU?list=PLbssOJyyvHuVmfQ6rHre20-4X-gnZczWj
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@EMCStorage, @EMCXtremIO and join conversations at VMworld with
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Full Story:
EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced the release of new
application integration and management features in the EMC®
XtremIO® all-flash storage platform for VMware and Microsoft
virtualized environments. The new XtremIO features offer a rich set
of workflow automation integrations that enable application and
infrastructure teams to take full advantage of simplified resource
provisioning and management workflows, automation and orchestration
in virtualized environments. Integrated Copy Data Management (iCDM)
functionality also helps reduce the need to purchase separate
dedicated hardware and software to manage copy data sprawl.
Among more than a dozen updates to the XtremIO XIOS™ operating
system, highlighted new features include:
- EMC and VMware product integrations between XtremIO, EMC
AppSync®, EMC VSI and VMware vCenter Web UI. This new integration
enables the vCenter administrator to locally recover and restore
virtual machines and datastores, and perform file-level restores
from within the virtual machine. This also enables new iCDM
workflows from the vCenter native user interface, allowing users to
create and repurpose functional copies using XtremIO's virtual copy
technology.
New XtremIO vRealize Orchestrator Plug-in, which acts on its
own or as a part of the VMware vRealize Automation workflow. The
new vRealize Orchestrator plug-in allows infrastructure teams to
build a self-service catalog of automated, end-to-end,
infrastructure workflows for virtualization administrators, DBAs,
and application owners. EMC will enable VMware users to fully
leverage XtremIO with VMware vRealize Automation to automate and
orchestrate storage management and provisioning tasks, such as
compute and storage provisioning and iCDM capabilities natively
within the VMware interface.
- Native support for Microsoft PowerShell version 4.0 and
5.0 via the XtremIO Management Server. As a result, administrators
can now benefit from a fully supported scripting environment, using
PowerShell and VMware PowerCLI from XtremIO to automate and
orchestrate any operation in a virtualized environment.
- New XtremIO support for the Storage Management Initiative
Specification (SMI-S), allowing users to manage and provision
XtremIO storage natively in their SMI-S user-interface of choice.
SMI-S enables broad interoperable management and provisioning of
heterogeneous multi-vendor storage systems from a variety of SMI-S
enabled applications. For example, XtremIO includes new support for
Microsoft Hyper-V virtualized environments via the System Center
Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) SMI-S profile. Going forward, EMC
will continue adding support for other SMI-S client profiles in
XtremIO.
EMC also released a beta version of XtremIO's new web-based
HTML5 graphical user interface. This web-based user interface is
designed to help provide XMS users with a simple, lightweight
option for XtremIO reporting, monitoring and management – and
supports access via mobile devices.
The rich set of application integration and storage workflow
automation features built into XtremIO are designed to help
simplify storage management and provisioning processes within major
applications that are critical to both IT and business users. EMC
will continue developing XtremIO to support integration and
workflow automation capabilities for additional applications to
help reduce the complexity of managing and provisioning storage and
application copies.
See XtremIO at VMworld 2016
For the third
consecutive year, XtremIO all-flash storage arrays have been chosen
to power the VMworld 2016 Hands-on Labs, an extremely demanding,
IO-intensive instructional environment built for testing and
demonstration of a variety of virtual and cloud-based workloads
with hundreds of users in more than 100 sessions over four days.
XtremIO all-flash storage is part of the foundational
infrastructure of the VMworld Hands-on Labs that powers the hybrid
cloud, end-user computing and software-defined data center
environments that are built on top of the VMware software stack.
XtremIO delivers high IOPS and predictable sub-millisecond
latencies while providing 100% storage uptime and maximum storage
capacity efficiency (upwards of 12:1), to ensure a world-class user
experience against the high performance and reliability demands of
the Hands-on Labs environment.
Availability
New features within the latest
release of the XtremIO operating system are available immediately
as a free software update for customers with current support
agreements. The XtremIO vRealize Orchestrator plugin will be
available later this year.
VMware Executive Quote:
Raghu Raghuram, Executive Vice President and
General Manager, Software-Defined Data Center Division,
VMware
"The XtremIO integrations with VMware vRealize Orchestrator
empowers customers to perform critical tasks such as backup,
replication and file-level restores for virtual machines natively
in the VMware vCenter or the vRealize Orchestrator user interface.
These integrations offer customers new features to help accelerate
productivity, while protecting business-critical applications and
data in a simple and efficient manner."
EMC Executive Quote:
David Goulden, CEO, EMC Information
Infrastructure, EMC Corporation
"As the clear market share leader for all-flash storage, XtremIO
also carries the mantle as EMC's fastest-growing product ever.
Apart from its world-class performance and ease of use, which we're
enhancing today, XtremIO is recognized for the continuous
innovation being poured into the platform to make it even more
valuable to our customers. XtremIO is core to EMC's modern data
center strategy and we look forward to sharing exciting news on
even more XtremIO innovation in the near future."
About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in
enabling businesses and service providers to transform their
operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this
transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and
services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping
IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most
valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and
cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found
at www.EMC.com.
EMC, AppSync, and XtremIO are trademarks or registered
trademarks of EMC Corporation in the
United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks
used are the property of their respective owners.
This release contains "forward-looking statements" as defined
under the Federal Securities Laws. Actual results could
differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking
statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not
limited to: (i) risks associated with the proposed acquisition of
EMC by Denali Holdings, Inc., the parent company of Dell, Inc.,
including, among others, assumptions related to the ability to
close the acquisition, the expected closing date and its
anticipated costs and benefits; (ii) adverse changes in general
economic or market conditions; (iii) delays or reductions in
information technology spending; (iv) the relative and varying
rates of product price and component cost declines and the volume
and mixture of product and services revenues; (v) competitive
factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures and new
product introductions; (vi) component and product quality and
availability; (vii) fluctuations in VMware, Inc.'s operating
results and risks associated with trading of VMware stock; (viii)
the transition to new products, the uncertainty of customer
acceptance of new product offerings and rapid technological and
market change; (ix) risks associated with managing the growth of
our business, including risks associated with acquisitions and
investments and the challenges and costs of integration,
restructuring and achieving anticipated synergies; (x) the ability
to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (xi)
insufficient, excess or obsolete inventory; (xii) fluctuating
currency exchange rates; (xiii) threats and other disruptions to
our secure data centers or networks; (xiv) our ability to protect
our proprietary technology; (xv) war or acts of terrorism; and
(xvi) other one-time events and other important factors disclosed
previously and from time to time in EMC's filings with the U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission. EMC disclaims any
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date of this release.
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